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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frankenstein Underworld" data-source="post: 178959" data-attributes="member: 35">Taking a chance on someone is fine as long as they provide their vision first.  Blindly taking a chance on someone seems rather reckless to me.Cidre came off as an untalented hack to me, but not because of the stories she told.  It was her emphasis on shock value over character-driven scenes and consistency.  Characters often changed personalities for inexplicable reasons because it suited the plot.  Cliff is the most glaring example of that.  Also, writing backwards from a cliffhanger was as sloppy as it sounds.That said, the show had a few character driven moments.  Pam and JR's deaths, and the scenes between JR, Sue Ellen, and John Ross come to mind.  Unfortunately, they were far too rare.That's usually what happens.  However, you'll occasionally get someone new like David Paulsen who respects a show's premise and actually ends up revitalizing the show.</blockquote>